Chapter 43: Is Sheng Yu Apologizing to Her?

Zhu Yuan did not wake up until noon the next day.

The first thing she did upon opening her eyes was to pinch her own cheek.

It hurt!

She wasn't dead!

The joy of having survived made her unable to stop herself from laughing out loud.

Hearing her silly laughter, Doctor Qiao Mai was given quite a fright; he hurried to Zhu Yuan's side with a worried expression, "Miss Zhu?"

By all logic, this shouldn't be happening; Sheng Yu had said her shock did not last long, so it shouldn't have caused prolonged oxygen deprivation to the brain that would affect her intelligence.

Could his diagnosis be wrong, and Miss Zhu had been rendered simple-minded?

What was he to do?

Hearing someone call her, Zhu Yuan reined in her laughter and turned her head toward the source of the sound.

At first glance, she saw Qiao Mai looking like he was about to cry; because the other party was wearing a white coat, he was clearly a doctor, but his expression gave her a sense of foreboding.

Watching her expression shift from silly laughter to gradual suspicion and despair, tears began to well up in her eyes.

Laughing one moment and crying the next—if she wasn't a simpleton, what was she?

Doctor Qiao Mai was so scared he was truly about to cry, "Miss Zhu, it is my mistake; I will go and beg for forgiveness from Sheng Yu right now."

He turned around in despair to find his phone to make a call, when suddenly a woman's hoarse, dry voice came from behind him: "What exactly is wrong with me?"

Doctor Qiao Mai was startled!

This tone did not sound like a simpleton's.

He turned around in a hurry, saw Zhu Yuan's eyes were clear and bright, and said with a solemn expression, "Miss Zhu, please recite the digits of Pi, at least nine decimal places."

Zhu Yuan was stunned at first, but seeing the other party's expression was so serious, she answered the question as requested: "3.141592653?"

"Completely correct!"

Doctor Qiao Mai let out a sigh of relief!

Zhu Yuan realized what was happening after the fact and became somewhat annoyed, "Did you think I had become simple-minded?"

"Then why were you laughing the moment you opened your eyes?"

And laughing so eerily, at that.

When a person is speechless, they really might just laugh.

Zhu Yuan closed her eyes; so that was why. She let out a breath and said with great patience, "Can't a person laugh after surviving a disaster? You're a doctor, do you have any medical ethics left?"

Doctor Qiao Mai stood frozen in place, not knowing what to say for a moment; the patients he came into contact with were all either rich or noble, and he rarely encountered someone so emotionally expressive.

He gave an awkward laugh, "As long as you are fine."

His life was saved.

Zhu Yuan also realized she had spoken too bluntly and hurriedly tried to make amends, "I'm just outspoken, please don't mind it."

Qiao Mai dared not take offense and nodded repeatedly, "It's fine, it's fine."

Zhu Yuan braced herself to sit up; she hadn't felt it while lying down, but the moment her body moved, she felt as if she had been run over by a large truck, and her head felt even more dizzy and heavy, causing her to collapse back onto the pillow instantly.

Qiao Mai hurriedly said, "Miss Zhu, you will feel dizzy for these next two days and need to stay in bed to recover."

"Stay in bed to recover?"

Wouldn't that mean she couldn't go to the hospital to accompany her grandfather?

She hurriedly looked at the nightstand; where was her phone?

"May I ask if you have seen my phone?"

Qiao Mai shook his head, "Your phone likely fell into the sea. Are you anxious to call the hospital? Sheng Yu has already had someone instruct the caregiver to tell your grandfather that you have gone out of town for a performance, so you don't need to worry about that."

Her hand under the quilt clenched gently.

Sheng Yu.

Suddenly, her hand seemed to touch something.

She took it out to look and stared at the Electric Baton in her hand with pleasant surprise.

She casually pushed the switch.

The buzzing sound of the electric current made Doctor Qiao Mai retreat several steps in fright.

It really had been fixed by Sheng Yu.

Zhu Yuan looked at the still-intact Electric Baton, feeling a sense of relief in her heart; she had thought it must have been broken after being thrown like that by Sheng Yu, but she hadn't expected it to be completely unaffected.

Last night, she had been too angry, and it was only after driving away that she remembered the Electric Baton had been left there. This Electric Baton could not be bought outside; it had been modified by her brother for her self-defense, but it was unrealistic to go back and get it at that time.

Her brother had modified this for her self-defense; there was no need to walk right into a trap just to retrieve it.

She knew clearly what was most important.

"How did this end up here?" Zhu Yuan asked Doctor Qiao Mai.

Doctor Qiao Mai answered truthfully, "Sheng Yu put it there."

However, he did not dare to say that the broken Electric Baton had been fixed by Sheng Yu; after all, he had been warned not to talk about things he shouldn't.

Zhu Yuan looked at the Electric Baton with a complex expression.

She didn't know if she was overthinking it, but this action of Sheng Yu's seemed like he was apologizing to her?

A black sedan stopped downstairs at the Sheng Group.

Situ got out of the car and opened the door. Sheng Yu stepped out, dressed in a crisp suit, the pure black color highlighting his aloof and cold temperament.

His cold gaze turned toward the group of people walking out of the lobby.

At the head of the group was Sheng Hongyao.

The father and son, who had been at daggers drawn last night, met just like this.

Behind Sheng Hongyao were the executives who had attended the birthday banquet last night; today, they had racked their brains to flatter Sheng Hongyao, but seeing Sheng Yu suddenly, the scene from last night left them with psychological trauma, and they instantly felt a chill on their necks.

"President Sheng." They stopped one after another to greet Sheng Yu.

Sheng Yu gave a grunt of acknowledgment, his gaze not lingering, and he strode into the elevator with his long legs.

Returning to the President Office, Sheng Yu unbuttoned his suit jacket, sat in the office chair, and picked up the documents on the desk to process them.

Situ knocked and entered, carrying a cup of coffee, "Young Master Yu, just after we left, Miss Zhu woke up."

The hand signing the document paused.

The man gave a faint grunt of acknowledgment.

"The car has already been sent to the agency; the preliminary assessment is that the clutch slipped, and there are issues with the transmission and brakes."

Sheng Yu's vehicle was regularly maintained by professionals, and the car had just been sent for servicing, yet these problems appeared in the blink of an eye.

"Have the people at the 4S dealership conduct a thorough inspection."

"Yes."

Sheng Yu put down his fountain pen, picked up the cigarette case and lighter at his side, and lit a cigarette.

The pale blue smoke drifted slowly away.

Situ's expression was grave, "I have also had people secretly investigate your rivals, but there are no results yet; as for Chairman Sheng..."

He did not continue.

Sheng Yu understood his concerns and flicked the cigarette ash, "It wasn't him."

Back then, when he drove and hit Shen Yijing, he lost consciousness the moment the collision occurred; when he woke up lying on a hospital bed, Sheng Hongyao was holding a gun to his forehead, wanting to avenge the son who had been delivered by emergency cesarean section but did not survive.

For the sake of one son, he wanted to kill his other son.

"Sheng Hongyao didn't take my life back then, and he won't now."

But Sheng Hongyao had plenty of ways to cause him distress.

For instance, the birthday banquet held last night.

Knowing exactly what he cared about most, he had deliberately chosen that cruise ship.

Of course, if his guess was correct, there were other reasons for Sheng Hongyao to provoke him.

A flash of sharpness crossed Sheng Yu's eyes, "Guess why he invited people from the Jingdu Theater Troupe to perform last night?"

"Could it be..." An answer flashed through Situ's mind, and his spine went cold, "Chairman Sheng's people investigated the troupe; does he want to find the woman behind you from within the troupe?"

No wonder, when he saw Miss Zhu on the cruise ship last night, he had secretly thought it was bad; he had assumed Young Master Yu would take Miss Zhu away before leaving the ship, but in fact, he hadn't.

Instead, he waited until Miss Zhu returned to the hospital before sending him to pick her up.

So, Young Master Yu had already guessed it at the time.